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FOLDING BED.

No. 312,625. 7 Patented Feb. 24, 1885.

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UNITED STATES PATENT. OFFICE.

THOMAS PIGLODY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

FOLDING BED.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 312,625, dated February 24, 1885.

A pplication filed October 4, 1883. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern: v

Be it known that I, THOMAS P. GLoDY, of the city and State of New York, have invented certain new and-useful Improvements in Folding Beds, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, the accompanying drawings forming a part of the specification.

Similar letters represent similar parts.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of the cotframe. Fig. 2 represents the leg or standard of the cot-frame with the adjustable oscillating metallic hook. Fig. 3 represents a portion of one of the side rails of the cot-frame with the legs or standards attached and folded.

In, applying my invention I construct a cotframe, A, of wood or other suitable material, in such a manner that Woven wire or any other flexible or rigid material can be stretched thereon to make a bed bottom. This cotframe is provided with cambered or trussshaped side rails, O O, which enables it to stand the strain of a woven'wire fabric and prevents it from sagging in the center and enables me to adapt this form of cot'frame for woven-wire mattresses instead of the parallel sides now in use. The legs or standards h h of the cot-frame-and this is the principal feature of myinventionare attached to the side rails each by a curved metallic brace or quadrant, S, placed on the inside of the legs or standards and side rails and adjusted with screws or bolts in such a manner that the legs of the cot-frame stand directly under the side rails and receive the entire weight of the bed. On the outside of legs of the cot-frame I have arranged an adjustable oscillating hook, d,

I which is secured to the pin a when the cot is open and in use, and which looks and holds the cot firmly and prevents it from swaying or falling; and when the cot is folded for removal or shipping this hook (I is secured on the pin a and holds the cot tightly and securely together, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3. Thus it will be seen that I have constructed and arranged a cot-frame in which there is no possibility of the legs or standards becoming disthe cot-frame, provided with two sets of pins, or 0., legs h h, abutting against the under sides of the rails, curved braces S S, secured to the double hooks d d, catching on the pinsaa, all substantially as described, whereby the legs support the rails upon their ends and are securely held both when extended and folded.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two witnesses.

THOMAS P. GLODY.

Witnesses:

GEO. SEMEL, J our: H. LITTLE.

The combination of the side rails, C C, of

placed and permitting the cot to fall when legs and pivoted to the sides of the rails, and 

